Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these complaints are minor compared to the praise which IEM graduates give the program...
Well, it's about time the United States brought out the flyswatter. The fact is, these "mosquito bites" amount to more than a minor irritation. They are costing the United States the lives of its citizens, most recently perhaps that of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, who, ironically, was a member of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon...
...regret the experience (she and Nixon still correspond regularly): "I knew that being out there with him was going to be a seminar the likes of which one could never attend. I had a real sense of the Shakespearean, dark history that I was going to be a minor character...
Whether it was just a minor rumble or a major tremor on the political Richter scale, last week's vote for the upper house of Japan's parliament was certainly a shock to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for 34 years. In the most devastating setback in its history, the L.D.P. claimed only 36 of the 126 seats up for grabs, while the underdog Japan Socialist Party took 46. Declared exultant J.S.P. leader Takako Doi: "I truly felt the mountains moving...
...book and keeps it from having quite the buoyancy and sparkle of Lodge's earlier campus novels, Small World and Changing Places. However, a pair of holdovers from those novels, the long-suffering Professor Philip Swallow and his American counterpart, the wheeler-dealer Morris Zapp, put in welcome minor appearances...